"Everyone is getting older and priorities are different," Bonan said. "We wanted to keep an alternative space in Danbury and now we can't. Danbury is losing a big asset and it sucks."

Bonan said while Independent Media Center is dead, the Hat City Free Press, an independent newspaper, lives on. As does the media center's Web site, which features an active message board about political rallies and other alternative news from around the state.

Finally, it isn't like Bonan and his buddies are going underground.

When asked whether members of the Danbury Independent Media Center will have a presence at an immigrant march planned for Sunday, Bonan said:

"We'll always have a presence in our community," he said.

Bonan, himself a former WestConn student, said a big chunk of books from the media center will be donated to the Danbury Public Library. Even more will go to another independent media center in Hartford.

"There will be a little card inside saying who we are and what we do and it will have our Web site," Bonan said.